grant offered him the position as minister to france. >>michael hill on elihu washburne, minister to france and the only diplomat from a major power to stay during the siege of paris. sunday night at 8:00 on c-span. >> now, tom donnelly and talks about the u.s. role in the world. this is about 50 minutes. >> as you all know, we are very fortunate to have with us the national security adviser to the president, tom donnilon. we are approaching our even a little differently than most do. we start off with a polling of you so he can hit an idea of your thinking on key issues. we have eight quick questions and we will do them rapidly. the first question is, during the next decade i believe u.s. defense spending will decline a, substantially,, b, moderately, c, slightly, or it will grow in terms of percentage of gdp. >> it just takes eight seconds to tally up everybody in the room. we come out at only slightly, which is not entirely shocking. we have yet to be shocked by an answer. the united states needs to develop new alliances and global in